Bird brains

[ritaxis]

I don't know. Are the world's avians getting stupider for some reason? The week before last I had to rescue an idiot hummingbird that was trying to dash out its tiny little head on the glass of the casement window at work. It had somehow gotten itself trapped between the glass and the screen. Not an easy thing to do. I had to carefully move

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[frogs_of_war]

What an adventure. I'm glad it wasn't me. That bird reminds me of the line from Hitchhiker's Guide (or one of those books) about the guy who invented a fly who could fly through the open half of a half open window.

[mjlayman]

When I rented that house for a few years because I kept falling down the stairs in my house, I had a bird just show up in the kitchen. I opened the door and sort of shooed it that way and it finally went out. I called the landlord and he said it must have come down the vent from the roof and he had that fixed.

BTW, I have a 2007 (I'm catching up) Smithsonian with a cover article on Prague and how foreigners live there. If you want it, send your address to marilee@mjlayman.com.